soon after by the paper’s staff, due to the concern that its presence on the website had purportedly “further[ed] harm to members of our community.”Berkson provided a copy of the letter to The Daily Beast.
This neglects certain pertinent facts—such as the instructor taking numerous measures to accommodate the religious beliefs of her students.
What is there about Minnesota being a part of a country supporting religious freedom? The university was wrong to let the instructor go. We do not live in a country of religious oppression.
I read popehat's piece on this incident. He labels the university's reaction as a clear and unambiguous case of surrender to cancel culture.
Calling a warlord of a religion you don’t follow “the prophet” is exactly why this sort of thing happens.
gunderwood3 Excellent article.
Yeah…this is part of the plan by getting rid of tenure.
I'd say this was an overreaction.
This piece takes the correct position that HamlineU has behaved horrifically here. However, the unfortunate reality is that even tenure often fails to protect employees in cases like this these days—which is one of the reasons TheFIREorg stays so busy.
Religion keys on trust. People claim to speak and write for God(s) and the faithful is required to believe that is true. If your god is so weak or irrational that questions cannot be tolerated, then that god learned very little since creating the world, making people, etc.